'Scream VI' Does Just Enough to Keep Me Coming Back for More
The franchise is getting perilously close to falling off the cliff, but the sixth film in the series does just enough to keep me interested in its inevitable continuation.
A world with ongoing Scream movies is certainly better than one without, even if I’m still adjusting to a series that has done away with Sidney Prescott. Can you believe she was reduced to the old “Oh, I talked to Sidney off-screen. She said she’s fine. She, uh, deserves her own happy ending or whatever.”
The series has always been about subverting expectations within the confines of horror tropes, and I think the sixth film in the series justifies its existence with some clever twists and turns, even among the relationships between what has now become our “Core Four” characters.
In Scream VI, there is plenty of waxing poetic about the state of legacy characters in open-ended, infinite series, driven by the continued presence of Gale Weathers and the re-emergence of Kirby Reed, who offers a much-needed breath of fresh air while enhancing the roots this new direction has to the rest of the series.
Scream VI is also pretty darn brutal in its violence, and clearly there is some solid groundwork being laid with Samantha Carpenter that helps her deviate from being just another Sidney to someone with her own compelling story worth following.
Clearly, the series is still connecting with audiences too, as Scream VI has become the highest-grossing film in the series domestically. You better believe we’re getting a Scream VII, and the franchise continues to do just enough to keep me coming back for more.